This article explores how the World Trade Organization, WTO, has understood
its role in contributing to development and particularly in its role in the right
to development. This last is conceived as a mechanism which all countries but
particularly those in development and the least developed can participate in
a fair and equitable way in the economic benefits of trade. In this sense what
has happened in the WTO is analyzed, having particular emphasis on the
results of the Doha Round (November 9-13, 2001, Doha, Qatar). The object
of the article is to demonstrate that, despite important and sensible themes
being incorporated which will contribute to the equilibrium of commercial
relations among States, in the course of negotiations great objectives found
themselves set aside in order to reach agreements of technically specific
and limited agreements. Despite this the article defends a multilateral role
for the WTO as an institution well suited for the advancement of a system
manifesting equilibrium.